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Found 45 articles.
- Vol 49 No 8
- 11/04/2008
Treading on the corn
It is universally accepted that a Malawian government's legitimacy is determined by the latest maize harvest. 'Chimango ndi moyo' (Maize is life) is an expression often heard and corn has to be available for purchase at a reasonable price. Most Malawia...
- Vol 49 No 7
- 28/03/2008
The vultures gather
So-called 'vulture funds' threaten the highly indebted countries that the International Monetary Fund is trying to rescue from the burden of debts they cannot pay. Many of the most vulnerable countries are in French-speaking West Africa, where money in...
- Vol 49 No 3
- 01/02/2008
Presidents, gems and trade
Leaders bearing gifts, a bad start to the year for diamond giant De Beers and those Economic Partnership Agreements
- Vol 49 No 2
- 16/01/2008
Panic, what panic?
The rich world's economies are sick and the looming recession in the United States has already triggered days of panic selling in Western and now Asian markets. Africa is caught in the middle of what many regard as part of a longer term shift of econo...
- Vol 49 No 2
- 16/01/2008
Frontier market
Fund managers are keeping one eye on the global market twitches and another on some of Africa’s rockier political systems as they try to assess news risk in 2008. For the last five years, Africa has an enjoyed a favoured but frontier market status.
- Vol 48 No 23
- 16/11/2007
Less blood on the stones
Blood diamonds are no longer a main concern for Africa's diamond industry. A reputation for fuelling conflict is no longer a big obstacle to sales, according to the 47 delegates, representing 73 countries, who met in Brussels on 5-8 November to discus...
- Vol 48 No 22
- 02/11/2007
New chiefs now, new policies later
For Africa, the Annual Meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund seem to resemble the shareholders’ meeting of a smallish public company bravely struggling back from the brink of insolvency. As each year’s corporate re...
- Vol 48 No 18
- 07/09/2007
Putting the country to work
The new grand industrial strategy is the most important economic initiative since GEAR
- Vol 48 No 15
- 20/07/2007
Unity on a smaller scale
The newly enlarged East African Community contains just under Nigeria's population, with only half of its GDP.
- Vol 48 No 14
- 06/07/2007
Books on the boom
Africa's oil boom has inspired three very different books, which investigate the links between the billions of petrodollars and the persistent poverty and oppression reigning in so many oil-rich states.
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